Genesis 8:14 — Meaning and Application

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“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”

Genesis 8:14

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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first {month}, the first {day} of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

And God spake unto Noah, saying,

Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Genesis 8:1

"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that {was} with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;"

Genesis 8:2

"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"

Genesis 8:3

"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. {continually: Heb. in going and returning}"

Genesis 8:4

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."

Genesis 8:5

"And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth {month}, on the first {day} of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. {decreased...: Heb. were in going and decreasing}"

Genesis 8:6

"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:"

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